You can find more well rounded and better performing dishwashers for the same price, but if you factor design heavily in your buying decisions, the GE Artistry dishwasher does everything else well enough to be worth your consideration.

It's not the best at anything, but the $900 Electrolux EI24ID30QS is pretty good at everything. It won't wow you, but If you scrape the bulky stuff off of your plates, this dishwasher will easily handle the rest, making it a fine upper midrange option.

You can throw anything you want at the $800 Bosch SHS63VL5UC as long as you can find a place where it fits. If you're willing to adapt to a tedious rack setup, it'll reward you with cleaning performance that far outclasses its pay grade.

The $1,200 LG LDT9965BD gets a lot of the big stuff right, particularly design and cleaning performance, but fumbles some of the little things like ease of use to fall short of a seamless dishwasher experience.